Teen Drinks Self To Death

Blood Test Registered .458%

January 17, 1985

BOULDER, COLO. — A 15-year-old boy drank himself to death, downing nine cans of beer, a quart of bourbon and half a bottle of whiskey at a party in which teen-agers were charged $1 admission, police said Wednesday.

Curtis John Schlieker, 24, was arrested an hour after an emotional funeral Tuesday for Richard Louis Dorman Jr. of Longmont, Colo., who died after a party Friday night at Schlieker`s home.

Police said the youth`s body was found 13 hours after the party in the snow on a bicycle path a few blocks from his home. Boulder County Coroner Rodney Ahlberg said the level of alcohol in the youth`s blood was .458 percent.

``When you`re past .250, you`re flirting with death,`` Ahlberg said.

Dorman also suffered from hypothermia, he said.

Schlieker, an unemployed cook, is being held for investigation of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.